Gartner has predicted that in “2013 mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide” and that “by 2015 media tablet shipments will reach around 50 percent of laptop shipments”. The prevalence of ‘work anywhere’ devices heralds a time of unprecedented change that is partly being driven by mobile and cloud [...]

While the IT group should be highlighted as an integral part of achieving M&A success, many enterprises fail to consider IT as an important strategic partner for the planning and execution of the new organization. When IT is not involved from day one, management often underestimates costs, effort and timelines for merging what are frequently [...]

The idea of the real-time business has been floating around for a few years now. The prominence of such an idea arises from the fact that technology keeps on getting faster and faster, businesses take advantage of the speed and more and more they seem to slip into running a kind of “real-time” operation. But [...]

The role of CFO has been evolving into one that has the potential to act as an executive advisory hub for the entire enterprise. Most CFOs must now understand the entire business, both strategically and tactically. Functions such as IT frequently report into the CFO’s domain, and extensive cross-team collaboration occurs with sales, marketing, product [...]

I ran into someone recently who claimed, without a trace of irony in their voice, that their company was running two MDM projects. I could think of no obvious way of responding to that, so out of politeness, I changed the subject. Master Data Management initiatives have, it has to be said, become quite popular [...]